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Flamboyance
By Lara Harrington
Ceramic
10” x 10” x 30”
2025
Artist Statement: I am a re-emerging artist working at the intersection of nostalgia, material, and identity. My early work explored form and curiosity—culminating in my 2002 exhibit at Mondieux, where flamingos served as both subject and metaphor for themes of grace, absurdity, and adaptation. This piece takes the most fluid and free shapes of the flamingo and locks it into a rigid form on only one pedestal.
Artist Bio: Lara Lourenço Harrington is an artist, cultural connector, and founder of Hotel Papel, a sister city arts residency bridging the Southcoast of Massachusetts and Portugal through creative exchange. Born to immigrant parents from the Açores, Lara’s work is rooted in heritage, storytelling, and nostalgia.
A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA in Fine Arts/3D, Class of 2000), Lara began her creative career in sculpture and object-making. After facing significant health challenges in her twenties, she turned to fitness and nutrition as a path to healing—ultimately building a successful 20-year career in the wellness industry. In 2025, Lara sold her business to return to her artistic roots and focus on building cross-cultural programs that celebrate shared histories and creative potential.
“This piece was made at a time in my life when I felt free to play with ideas, materials, and environments. It speaks of happy surprises one might find in a garden and gestures at the dynamics between objects and nature. The flamingo was hand carved by me, made into a mold, cast for each piece, and hand painted. The colors, the repetition, and the symbol of the pedestal make it ornamental, and by now it is in fact, a relic.”
-Lara Harrington, New Bedford, MA.
Flamboyance
By Lara Harrington
Ceramic
10” x 10” x 30”
2025
Artist Statement: I am a re-emerging artist working at the intersection of nostalgia, material, and identity. My early work explored form and curiosity—culminating in my 2002 exhibit at Mondieux, where flamingos served as both subject and metaphor for themes of grace, absurdity, and adaptation. This piece takes the most fluid and free shapes of the flamingo and locks it into a rigid form on only one pedestal.
Artist Bio: Lara Lourenço Harrington is an artist, cultural connector, and founder of Hotel Papel, a sister city arts residency bridging the Southcoast of Massachusetts and Portugal through creative exchange. Born to immigrant parents from the Açores, Lara’s work is rooted in heritage, storytelling, and nostalgia.
A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA in Fine Arts/3D, Class of 2000), Lara began her creative career in sculpture and object-making. After facing significant health challenges in her twenties, she turned to fitness and nutrition as a path to healing—ultimately building a successful 20-year career in the wellness industry. In 2025, Lara sold her business to return to her artistic roots and focus on building cross-cultural programs that celebrate shared histories and creative potential.
“This piece was made at a time in my life when I felt free to play with ideas, materials, and environments. It speaks of happy surprises one might find in a garden and gestures at the dynamics between objects and nature. The flamingo was hand carved by me, made into a mold, cast for each piece, and hand painted. The colors, the repetition, and the symbol of the pedestal make it ornamental, and by now it is in fact, a relic.”
-Lara Harrington, New Bedford, MA.